We compare expert finding approaches that use and combine different types of expertise evidence: content-based expert finding using academic papers, and expert finding using a social citation network between the documents and authors. We evaluate our approaches on a test collection that represents the research output of a typical average-sized academic workgroup. We find that expert finding usi...

Through citation analysis, this study explored the distribution of document type, language and publication year for citations in social science journals. Samples were research articles published in 2010 from first-rank journals, as assessed by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Science Council and indexed in Taiwan Social Sciences Citation Index (TSSCI). The section in w...

This paper presents a scientometric study about information management. Both the Science Citation Index and the Social Science Citation Index were used to analyse the literature about information management by various criteria like journal subject category, origins of the authors, publication languages, chronological distribution. Furthermore, a citation analysis was conducted. On the basis of ...

This study is to describe the knowledge network of strategic alliance studies embedded in the leading articles and to explore the key research themes in this field between 1999 and 2008. A total of 521 articles with 21,493 cited references were extracted from the Social Science Citation Index and the Science Citation Index. By using bibliometric methods, the citation and co-citation counts obta...

the aim of this research was to study the self-citation of physical education professors in “olympic” and “harakat” journals from 2003 to 2009. the amount and number of papers with self-citation, the ratio of self-citation authors to all authors, number of self-citation and its amount, self-citation distribution according to the year of publication and the ratio of self-citation to the type of ...

This paper examines the key lines of inquiry that have been used in research focused on the identity, dynamics, and diffusion of MIS, as well as the strengths and weaknesses associated with each approach. We present five primary means: (1) citation analysis, (2) classification analysis, including metaanalysis, (3) editorials and opinion pieces, (4) historical surveys of previous work, and (5) f...

Automatic recognition of CORROBORATE and CONTRAST relations between citations may enhance citation analysis. We describe a system that identifies these citation relations using predicate/argument and discourse structures.

In a recent paper entitled “Inconsistencies of Recently Proposed Citation Impact Indicators and how to Avoid Them,” Schreiber (2012) proposed (i) a method to assess tied ranks consistently and (ii) fractional attribution to percentile ranks in the case of relatively small samples (e.g., for n < 100). For example, a journal may contain a limited number of (e.g., ten) reviews in a year. In that c...

In this article, we analyze the citations to articles published in 11 biological and medical journals from 2003 to 2007 that employ author-choice open-access models. Controlling for known explanatory predictors of citations, only 2 of the 11 journals show positive and significant open-access effects. Analyzing all journals together, we report a small but significant increase in article citation...

Technological change is argued to be taking place along ordered and selective patterns, shaped jointly by technological and scientific principles, and economic and other societal factors. Historical, descriptive analysis is often used to analyze these “trajectories”. Recently, quantitative methods have been proposed to map these trajectories. It is argued that such methods have, so far, not bee...